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Middle Georgia Argus
PUBLISHED 'EVERY THURSDAY
MORNING.
TndTajTsPRING, QA. Mar23~1882.'
LOCAL MATTErT
Ice this morning.
The Specialty at Daghtry &
Bro’s is the tremendous bargain?
in Laces, in over 150 different de
signs, and is a curious sight to be
hold? A REAL TREAT FOR TI?E LADIES.
Neatly folded in bunches of 2 to 10
yds, warranted perfect, each price
containing the full measure marked
on the wrapper.
Splendid prospect lor a wheat
crop in Butts
No 1 flour for sale at the brick store at
this office.
We promised our readers, the speech
S? senator Vance, this week, but we had
to hold our space for the Grand Jury
Presentments.
A nice line of Spring. Calicoes &
Dress Goods, Shoes Hats &g.
At J. G Daughtry & Bros.
We learn that Wilson Smith started to
Atlanta, yesterday to put Mrs. Smith
(his wife) under the care of a skilled op
tician
We have on consignment, a splendid
lot of flour, gaound and • purified by the
celebrated Mills of Bosworth & Farns-
Wbrth.
Go to J. G. Daughtry, & Bro. for your
Plow Goods They are the cheapest in the
county.
We expect to be able to giro a full re
port of the progress, of track T ying (fee
on the extension, next week, aA we in
tend going down the line to see what is
going on.
AT COST.
During the next 30 days I
will sell Dry Goods, Hats-and
Shoes at Cost. I desire to make
some change in my business and
mean what I say.
T. J. Saunders.
J. G. Daughtry & Bro. sells IT aim ax
and Ferguson Plow Stocks, at $1,85
“Lorenza Dow"
Read If You want To Know.
If you want to know about the New
treaty, between Gov. Troup and
Mclntosh, and John Quincy Adams
call on Dow Jr.
If you want to know who made
the motion in the legislature, tc
name this county Butts, and how
the patriotic and brave Butts, came
to his death call on Dow Jr.
If you want to know who has the
best lot of shoes ever brought to
Indian Spring., call on T. J. Saun
ders.
If you want to know hmv many
Court Houses has been built in
Jaokson and how they were burnt;
ca 11 on Dow Jr.
Jjfyou want to see the prettiest
lot of prints you ever
saw, at 5| cents and upwards; call
on T. J. Saunders.
If you want to know how many
bridges has been built at Indian
Spring, and who built them; call
on Dow Jy,
If you want to see the cseapest
and preetiest doted
Lawns you ever saw call on T. J.
Saunders.
Six fingered Grain Cradles at
$3,00.
Large lot of plow hoes just re
ceived at
Daughtry & Bros.
We learn that Mr. Thomas Good
rum of Monroe county, planted six
rows, about 40 yds. long, in ribbon
cane, last year, from which he sold
S4O worth of cane, saved seed for
this year, and made five or six gal
lons of syrup.
Just Received a large lot of Flour,
Corn, Sugar, Bran Feed Oats Fresh
Jnealat
J. G. Daughtry & Bros. '
We are glad to note from our ex
cliances that a heavy falling off, in
the purchase of fertilizers is report
ed from all parts of the state, and
and the indications now are that
there will not he exceeding half the
usual amount used.
Thurbers no 34 parched cof
fee at 20cts per pound.
At Daughtry & Bros.
Mr Thomas Higgins has planted
a good sized patch o f ribbon cane,
and we hope to be able to give a
good report from it next fall. It
has already been demonstrated, be
yond a doubt that it can be success
fully raised in this climate.
Married— At Fort Gibson, on the 14th
mst. Mr Rilev Lindsay, of Cheauto,
Indian Territory, and formerly of this
county; to Mis? P, Cowan, o: Fort Gib
son, Indian Territory, and formerly of
Tenn.
We Congratulate our friend Riley,
on securing for a partner through life,
one whom we know to be a lady of inte>
jrenee culture, and refinement.
May their lives be as bountiful decked
with “flowers” as is the beautifut coun
try, in which they have made their
home.
Eight Pounds good Rio Coffee for one
dollar at J. G. Daughtry & Bros,
The best Stock & Cattle pow
ders ever made, for sale at this of
fice.
Col George W, Adair of Atlanta
is here surveying the streets and
lots around the depot prepatory to
inmproving the new part of the
town, The surveying corps will get
through in two or three days, and
everything will then be in readiness
as soon as the road can bring lum
ber, for East end to begin*to build
up, and as it builds towards the
spring, west End; of course, will
build towards the depot, and then
the^Argus office will be right in the
centre of Indian Spring, in stead of
moving as has been announced.
Congress seems to be in earnest
about anew bankrupt law it has a
number of bills upon the subject
under considertion. The late bank
rupt law wi s was a farce and an
outrage upon all parties interested,
and it the wisdom of the national
Legistlature cannot give us a beter
act they had better leave the matter
alone.
We heard one of our farmers say
he wouldn’t use a pound of Guano,
this year. He says he has used it
every year since he has been farm
ing, except one, and he had more
clear money that yeai than any
other. After paying up he had five
hundred dollars in cash in his pock
et, and he has never had over one
hundred dollars in cash on hand
after paying expenses when he used
fertilizers. This is a very poor in
ducement to continue its use, and
we think he is showing his wisdom
by letting it alone.
Edwin Belcher colored, editor of
the Savanah Echo has denounced
and abandoned the Felton coalition.
He says that the colored voters of
Georgia understand the trick of
the coalitions to capture their votes
and will not go into the trap. That
game has been played long enough.
He states that the negroes have just
as much to hope for from the Dem
ocrats as from the Independents;
and that, if the former will adopt a
liberal platform and pursue a wise
policy in the coming campaign the
colored voters will go with them.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE
STOCK LAW.
Wilson Smith has adopted a
Stock law, of his own, which him
ar and his neighbors say, works like
a “charm.”- He has obtained an
animal that, guards his fields at
night with about the same vigilance
that the watch dog guards the yard,,
and premises. This animal shall ■
for the present, he nameless, but its
general make up and appearance,
indicates about a half cross between
a hull dog and a donkey ! except
the length of its ears, which is out
of all proportion to the hull-dog.
Wilson lives in one of those pla
ces where all the stock in the
neighborhood, think they have a
perfect right to roam at will. Now
to put a stop to this ; something
must he done, but what? is the
question.
Every body that knows wil son is
apprised of the fact that he has too
much charity in his big heart to
vote for a law, that would be an
oppression to the widowed women
of landless tenant, by shutting
their stock oft from the delicious
fields of wild clover around, but
something must be done, to meet
the case ; and Wilson determined to
get him an animal that would be a
terror to the roguish mules.
Now Bob Lawson is one of those
fellows Who is supposed to he able
at all times, and under all circum
stances, to suppls the wants of every
bodv;So Wilson at once “tackled”
Bob;who with his usual business
sagacity, reflected a moment, roll
irg his cigar around m his mouth
replied; “no Wilson I havent got
one fff the critters but I have got a
mortgage on one, and I think the
trade can be arranged.” And so it
was, Wilson returned home, so
much delighted, that he showed his
appreciation of his his new acquisi
tion, by attaching to him, the dis
tinguished name “McCracken.”
In a few days “McCracken” had
an opportunity to “tackle” the mule
that had been lord of the realm, for
lo these many days,’’those delicious
oats, had grown to be so tempting
that the depredator began to make
his visits very frequently, and Wil
son concluded to put his little ane
m-u-l-e on guard. During the night
when tke ane-m-u-l-e eave the alarm
by sounding a terrific lonr, it
aroused the natives, who sank back
into their slumbers, believing it was
the bosses sounding the bugle on
the new railroad, and when they
heard the rumbling sound as the
rush of a mighty wind, at distant
thunder, they exclaimed; “Irvin’s
lifting them rocks this timed' but
when day-light broke upon the
scene, it developed a race in pro
gress, that hasnt been equalled
since Colquitt lead Norwood. At
any rate that mule hasnt been seen
there since, and its fears has been
communicated to its neighbors, and
when that bugle blows they hide
out. The experiment is a succes,
as a substitute for the stock law, and
Wilson says he will furnish young
ane-m-u-l-e-s tor ten dollars. For
pedigree Ac call on Bob Lawson.
A SAD CASE. ■
In the case of W, H. Head against
Wilson Coleman last week Judge
Willis ordered the sheriff to make
a deed and put Mr Head in posses
sion of Mr. Colemans lands. It
will be remembered that Mr. Head
levied a claim on the land last fall
a claim of homestead was inter
posed in behalf of the minor chil
dren of Mrs coleman deceased. Mr.
Head gave the sheriff an indemni
fying bond and proceded with the
sale, but the sheriff refused to make
a deed until ordered by the court.
Court now having ordered thedeed
to be made the plaintiff in fi-fa has
ordered the sheriff to throw the
children and their effects out of
doors tomorrow, (Tuesday). This
edict of e jectment, has the sound of
the Irish Landlord in it, to say the
least of it. The case is about as
follows ;At the Admr. Sale of the
Gilmore lands Mr. C. purchased 200
acres of the land for $1,500 and to
make the payment borrowed SBOO
dollars from Mr H. at 20 per . cent
interest whiehdias been running
about ten years, Mr. C., claimsthat
he has paid about two thousand
on the claim sirce it was first bor
rowed.
Mrs. Coleman had the land set
apart as a homestead for her and
her children, several years ago. In
early part of last year she was ta
ken down with consumption and
after a long period of suffering du
ring which'her children caught the
measles, resulting in a severe re
lapse to some of them; She died.
Mr. Coleman had nine persons in
the sick bed at one time, and as a
consequence, lost his crop and ex
hausted his means, thus rendering
him unable to meet his obligations
given for supplies &c to Jive on.
He now has no supplies to live on
his children are small 'and all of
them girls but one. It may be that
a great deal of his trouble" may he
attributable to bad management,
but let that be as it may, the ffaet
remains the same, his family is in
a deplorable condition, more so,
than any case that has come under
our knowledge in a long time; ta
ken altogether we doubt if Butts
County ever had so sad a case.
We have felt it a duty to inform
'ourselves as to the true cond.tion
of these orphan children, and on
Saturday night and Sunday, we find
them left without any protector ex
cept the all-seeing eye above; their
father having gone to Griffin to see
Judge Stewart and ask a hearing.
The picture of this home is too
sad to dwell upon, and too mortify
ing to be held up before the public,
while a great many will treat it
with derision; but we can’t look in
to that home bereft of a mothers
care, with but a scant ration of
bread, and not a morsel of meat
for many days, with only two days
to remain in the place made sacred
by all the ties that bind them to the
memory of a departed mother; the
time so near at hand for that harsh
injunctson, “throw them out of
doors,” to be obeyed, and remain
silent. We think if there ever was
a time when that time honored
brotherhood(The masonic fraterni
ty) should aid an unfortunate broil -
er, it is now.
And the church at sand ay creek
has a chance to bring the blessings
of a just ruler upon them, by 7
giving aid to the orphans of a wor
thy, departed member. Will they
do it?
Since writing the above we learn
that Judge Stewart has granted an
injunction restraining the sheriff
from the eviction until the first of
April, when a hearing of the case
will be granted.
We learn that Mr. Dick Brooks
representing Mr. Head came over
monday to have them thrown out
that day and would have done so,
but for the injunction.
More Truth Than Poetrv.”
%
E, Lh Tavior, a correspondent of the
Monroe Advertiser, in discussing the
merits of those names sent up to the
constitution, as successful corn raisers,
closes wiih the following pertinant re
mark’s. “I know, gentlemen, you think
I desire to mention mvseif, cr desire
some ose else to extol me. Not so. I
am a failure as a farmer. Why? Be
cause lam a type of too mauy others
who are attempting to farm when God
did not design for them to be farmers.
Poets are born” farmers are born. Sense
is wanting—God given tact. Too many
farming that ought to be in the machine
shop, behind the counter, or in the
ehaingang. Too nauv behind the coun
ter that ought to be farming or sent on
some Foreign Mission. The cards need
Shuffling and redealing. Five aces are
too many for any deck.
I endorse every word you say about
the farmers you mentioned: hut one
cause of their success was, tliev had the
hard mule sense to know what to do
with a dollar when they had made it.
More in this than knowing how to farm.
Give my friend Joe Howard my spend
thrift ways and he would beg bread in
two years. Let friend Sutton go to a ten
pin alley a time or two and his engin
would he shin-plasierod over with mort
gages,
A man in Borne is preparing to
publish a directory of all the rnar
riageble ladies of Georgia worth
SSOOO, and upwards. It will give
name.residence, style ot appearance
blond or brunette, with age and
anci fortune, in possession or pros
pective. We predict that a great
deal of unheard-of wealth will be
deveiped among the women of Geor
gia, by that directory.
Many miserable people drag
the nselves about with failing
strength, feeling that they are staed
ily sinking into their graves, when
by using Parker’s Ginger Tonic,
they would find a cure commen
cing with the firs) dose, and vital
itv and strength surely coming
back to them. See other col urns,
A “GEORGIA SCENE.”
McDuffie Journal
Last Sunday night was one of
the darkest, rainiest, dismalest even
ings of the nineteenth century, and
why Mrs Mary Farr, colored,should
have selected that occasion to knock
the bottom out of Mr. Curtis’s well
is one of those conundrums that
has no answer. But she did. Mrs,
Farr will be 53 years of age in
blackbury time, is 5 feet 24 inches
high, weighs 234 and has a corn on
the little toe of her left loot. She
got off the cars on the evening men
tioned and started up to Mr Curtis’s
to spdtad the night. She carried a
fifty pour and sack of Hour on her
shoulder and a basket on her arm,
in which were her sewing thread, a
ball of yarn, a pair of stockings big
enough for a rhinoceros, and a sit
ting of -qose eggs. When she ar
rival avlvlr. Curtis’s she marched
around th<^ back way, climbed up
on top of the fence and jumped
down—n the hack yard. Well, not
much. She struck a sheet of water
about ten feet below, and the wa
fcer-spout that flew out of that hole
in the ground deluged the face of the
earth. When she got through ex
ploring the bottom she came to the
surface, formed the acquaintance of
the well-rope and concluded to hol
er. Soon a crowd of brave men
and muddy 'women were gazing
down at the undulating person of
Mrs. Farr, as it moved on the face
of the deep. A derrick was quickly
improvised and a rope lowere—but
here a great difficulty presented its
self The fair dame was found to
taper in every direction from the
middle. In fact she was big fit lit
tie and lof tom :1, top. No rope of
ordinary intelligence could be relied
on to hold its grip under the cir
cumstances, and the bystanders
stood in awe of another deluge in
case of a slip. But they tarred and
sanded the rope, tied it under her
arms and the elevating commenced.
The water immediately sunk five
met and three inehees. The old la
dy changed ends several times in
coming up, but when they dumped
her out in the mud she still held to
the sack of flour; and her basket
had lost nothing but the ball of
thread. When they headed her up,
like a barrel, she looked very much
like ten bushels of mud in a, five
bushel sack, and she was very
moist. As Mr. Irving very forcibly
remarked, “she was in a dam-p bad
fix.” But they rubbed her down
with kerosene and rolled her in hot
ashes, and she is now receiving the
congratulation of her friends. But
she has taken a solemn oath never
to get down off a fence in the dark
again as long as she lives.
Mr .F Phinazy prob aly the second
richest man inGeorgia (an extensivie
farmer himself) said recntly to the editor
of the Contitution:
“If the farmers will only take
your advice Geogia will be the most
prosperous State in the Union in a
lew years The farmers will ba rich
and they will enrich everythin eise
On the cotton-raising plan they can
soon be richer than the railroad.”
‘ it is the cotton-raising that give
the railroads their monopoly. They.
haul in the guano, haul out the .cot
ton, and then haul in the provis
ions. Now let the farmer make his
own fertilizers —that keeps out, the
guano freights. Let him raise his,
own c’orn and meat —that kills the;
promsion freights. I’ve had a good
deal to do with railroads and have
interests in them, but I had rather
see them snffer and the people
prosper, than see them prosper and
the people suffer. • v
GRAND JURY PRESENT
MENTS.
We the Grand Jury drawn cho
sen and sworn for the March Term
of Butts superior Court 1882.
Make the following general pre
sentment. We find the public
roads throughout the county have
received the usual atteution except
those roads'crossed or appropriated
by the .Macon & Brunswick R. R.
and we recomend that the ordina
ry coufer with the R. R. authority
and have them put in order imme
diately and so changed as to require
as few crossings as possible. We
find the Court House and Jail need
ing slight repairs we recomend that
the northwest room of the court
house be hereafter used for a Grand
Jury room.
We have examined & approved
the dockets of Maddox, Dogulas,
Barnett, Lynch A Bankston J. P.
But find the dockets of Bledsoe
Neal Thurston Flynt and Brown
incorrectly kept.
The docket of Bell Smith & Evans
not been presented./
On account of the limited time at
the disposal of Grand Juries they
are unable to properly examine
books belonging to the several
county officers therefore we recom
end that his Honor. J. F. Willis
appoint Mr. W. M. Mallett It. V.
Smith M.V. McKibhen & Mr. John
W Gibson as alternate as a commit
tee to thoroughly investigate the
condition of the records & other
papers in the various County offi
cers and report the result to the
Grand Jury for the September term
1882. said committees to receive
per day each for such, we recomend
that the ordinary furnish each jus
tice of the peace & Not., Republic
with snitable Dockets. We recom
mend that the ordinary have a
Bridge built acros3 Wolfs creek
near Edlemans mill provide that if
all any change in the road should
be made the same should be done
without any cost to the county said
bridge not to cost more than $2OO
built upon rock abutments; an the
ordinary have a bridge built across
Sandy creek at or near a large rock
near the simmons place in the town
of Mclntosh said bridge to be about
one hundred feet long resting upon
rock abutments provided the town
council of Mcintosh will secure the
right of way for roads approaching
said bridge & grade the same and
fill in the abutments free of cost to
the county, and also connect the
Dublin road so that only one bridge
\vill he required & that the ordina
ry shall not let out said contract
until the above terms are complied
with. One third of the cost of said
bridge to be paid in the fall of 1882
& balance in 188,3. We recomend
the ordinary to have a substantial
fence built aronnd the court house
square & also take out an insurance
policy upon the cou|t house to the
amount of $5OOO,
We recommend that the ordinary
levy a tax upon the state tax twen
ty five per cent for general funds
ninety per cent bridge funds, eight
per cent for jail funds, (25) Twenty
five per cent for pauper funds Ten
per cent for court house funds.
Unon inquiring we find that
terms of three members of the
school board has?expired we have
chosen R.V. Smith Obediah Hen
drick & W. M. Mallett to fill the
vacancies. In taking leave of his
Honor Judge J. T. Willis & Solicit
or General Worn mack we tender
our sincere thanks.
Samuel McKibben
Foreman.
• Georgia Butts County
Office Clerk Superior Court.
March Term 1882
I Larkin Watson clerk of the
superior court for said county da
certify that the above & foregoing
is a true copy from the minutes of
this Court Given under my hand
& official
Signature
This March 18th 1882
L. D. Watson, Clerk.
,CARC ASS-EATINGr
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Judge ■ Mangump comhiissionex
for Arkansas who has .established
his headquarters at Helena j says hd
Las $5,000. persons on his list now
being fed by the government on
halt rations. He says the number
will bo largely increased now, as he
can reach from Helena a much lar
ger number than from any other
point, that being about the centre
of the greatest suffering. He
thinks the government will have to
feed the people fora month. There
is very great suffering in the region
running about Helena, some of the
inhabitants being reduced to eating
the carcasses of drowned animals,
and other presenting the appearance
of persons going insane from star
vation
ALMOST in A STATE OF CANIBALISM.
A special from Helena says the
latest advices from the upper St.
Francis river reports that the peo
ple in that section are almost re
duced to canibalism, that they have
eaten carcasses for some days, and
now have the appeoranee of persons
about to become insaue from star
vation.
THE DEATHLY LEGACY.
Colonel A, H. Johnson, president
of tjie Arkansas Midland railroad
who returned to day from Hot
Springs, having come down to He
lena by a skiff from the mouth of
the St. Frauds river, savs the
scenes along tne river were most dig.
tressing. The stench from dead
animals is sickening, and when the
water declines it will be still more
fearful. The earth is left covered
with a thick slimy substance, with
reptiles of every kind and miasma
from decaying matter will inevita
bly be serious in its consequehces
The country south of Helena i.-
swarming with buffalo gnats and
much stock that was saved from
drowning by the overflow is being
killed by these insects.
OUR NEW NEIGHBOR.
We have before 11s the valedictory cl
H. H. Cabaniss, of the Monroe Adverti
ser and also the Salutatory, of J, T. Wa
terman, the present Editor, and Propri
etor.
We regret the retirement of Mr. C.
From the Advertiser, which had worked
up to the front rank of weekly journal
ism. He is an able and conservative
writer, at all times working for the edi
fication. and benefit of his readers; and
best of all, he possesses the noble trait
of character, to appreciate the condition
of those dialing on a lower “round of
the Ladder/’ than himself, and his ef
foris was to pull them up rather than
to to push them down
We hope he has only severed his con
nection with the Advertiser to slip uj:
on a higher round, where his talent wil
command a greater reward.
As for the journal, he leaves to tho care
of Mr. Watchman, we need have no fear
for its future. His past record as a jour
nrlist, is a sufficeent guarantee, tiiat it
will be conducted successfully an to the
nterest of the people of Georgia. We
commmend it to our readers.
How Much Cotton Can A Hand pick ?,
We Have heard of some disputing on
the subject of how much cotton has bee r.
picked by one hand in one day,
We hove often heard of one hand pick
ing upwards of five hundred pounds in
this State, hut 4ißlbs is the highest
picked in this county that we have any.
knowledge of.
Ten thousand people are reported
as.destitute in Tensas Parish, La. It
is estimated that the number of
actual sufferers by the Soutern flood
75,000 people-
There will bemany 7 public question
to be settled this year, but the Car
olina Spartan strikesit right when it
says: “The great absorbing con
sideration, just now, is how to mak
the best crop possible at least ex
pense.
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